3/2/09 email

FAMILY!!!
Hey everybody!!
Our investigators are doing well. We are working hard up here and we are seeing success which I am very pleased with!! This area is one of the toughest... the town is so small that everyone knows who we are. So just have to find those who are prepared by the Lord for us at this time. So that requires hard work and talking with everyone!! Talking with everyone is hard sometimes cuz most of the time it is just such an awkward situation. But once you force yourself to do it it ends up being fun.
Now I'll get to my week which was a good one
Mon- We hung around for p-day and when saw a couple investigators, but didn't have very good lessons with them.
tue- we had Zone Conference in Scranton! That was fun to be able to go down there into the city again. Conference was super good, probably one of the best ones I have had so far!! It was good to see Pres and Sister Pugh back again cuz they were in Utah where he had surgery. I learned alot and have been trying my best to apply everything and is all paying off greatly for sure. After conference we stayed in Scranton and went on exchange with the Zone leaders.
wed-Elder Sorensen and I did more tracting and talked to alot of people. When we were driving back to Montrose we got lost in Scranton for about an hour, but we found our way home. Brother Bell picked us up and we had dinner at his house with his family. They are all super smart. After dinner we had a family home evening with them and taught Allison cuz she is getting ready to be baptized.
thur- We did service in the morning and did lots of tracting until dinner. Then we went to the Wilcox's for dinner, and then Bro Wilcox went with us to see the Jordan family.
fri- we had weekly planning in the morning then we tracted and taught 2 lessons and found one new investigator named Teresa. We taught her and will see where that goes. That night we saw Donna Cornell and taught her about the law of chastity and reset her baptismal date of March 28, and she is excited. Then we went to the Briggs house and he cooked us some steak and egg noodles with gravy and it was good. They are a cool young family that wants to start coming back to church so that they can get sealed in the temple.
sat-lots of street contacting and tracting
sun- Church!! the Briggs family came!!! Which we were stoked about! and it went really well. After church we went and did some country tracting and had some muddy dogs jump on me, which I wasn't happy about. Then Bro. Briggs fed us again which was cool. He fed us what is called "Chicken Speedy" which is marinated chicken with the "speedy sauce" what they only make here, and you put it on a hoagie roll. They were super good.
So that was our week- it was a good one for sure!!
I love you all and I pray for you!! Sweet is the work and great is the glory!!
Love
Elder kyle black